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Not my original analogy but --The media is like the referee who blindsides the QB, trips the running back and wide receiver, and calls penalties against one side while ignoring more flagrant dirty plays committed by HIS favored team.
What an awesome analogy, I am going to have to remember that.
What do you guys make of Romney's 47% won't vote for me anyway remark?I don't think it will make a difference because he is right and anyone that thinks about it will realize he is. This election is going to come down to the 6% of people in the middle.
I don't know, I kind of like the SMF format. It is easy to use and simply laid out. In general, my experience shows that the more bells and whistles something has the less overall functionality it has. SMF does the whole forum piece extremely well I think.
I'd rather we pull out and let them have at it. If they threaten Israel we start launching nukes and be done with it. The Islamic world is lost to us. The sooner we face this fact the better off we will be.
Finally, something we sort of agree on. I am all about pulling out and letting them get busy killing each other. However, and there is almost always a however, unless and until we develop our own energy supplies we have to care about those turds. If we were to really exploit the known fossil fuel reserves in the US we could, lower gas prices, increase employment, and disengage from the Middle East while securing our own energy needs into the foreseeable future. Then the only thing we would need to worry about is the security of Israel and we could let the wider Middle East rot. I am all with you there.We are not going to make little Westerners out of backwards Muslims. It is just not going to happen and the sooner the West realizes and accepts this the better.
The problem is not the particular politicians, it is that we no longer really wage war, we play at it. Decisiveness ended for American war-making in 1945.Regardless of who wins the election they will continue to stumble along in the Middle East because the actions needed for a real decision in that troubled region are politically impossible.
But his importance was more symbolic than lasting. The point is that what he accomplished did not last, only the legend did. Don't get me wrong the legend is worth something, it is just not a real accomplishment.
Donnie,I echo that we are not trying to gang up on you. I am just trying to convince you that the position you have taken is just as bad as voting for Obama would be. I respect your right to support whoever you want and believe whatever you would like. Hell, I went to war for those rights. It just saddens me to see someone get so angry and disillusioned at the current mess in Washington, and it is a mess even a disaster, that they voluntarily withdraw from exercising their right to vote. That is not what the founders envisioned when they designed this great republic. A choice to not choose is still a choice.
Brief and shaky ? Would you explain pls ?
Simple, his Empire fell apart within 50 years of his death as his son's squabbled. Charlemagne himself was the glue that held his empire together, absent hi it disintegrated.
That is pretty cool. I think it took so long for color to take off in movies because the process was so much more expensive and complex than black & white.
Ron Paul may have character, I will not dispute that. I also think he is one of the few honest politicians in Washington. It is that very honesty that scares me because he has some pretty flaky ideas. His isolationist bent is one of the scariest, does he really think we can withdraw from engagement with the world? That is a pipe dream, our economy and infrastructure would collapse were we to do so because of the loss of manufacturing capability over the past 40 years. His ideas on fixing the currency are also unworkable. The biggest hurdle is that nobody, and I mean nobody, will vote for his program. He is Don Quixote tilting at windmills. I would rather vote for someone less extreme who has a semi-realistic chance of enacting reform than someone like Ron Paul or Gary Johnson who have the snowball’s proverbial chances of getting elected in the first place and getting anything done in the event of a miracle in the second. I will be the first to admit that Romney is not my ideal candidate, far from it, as you well know. That does not detract from the fact that my candidate lost in the primaries for whatever reason and I have my suspicions there. If the choice is Romney or Obama, then I will choose Romney because anything is better than Obama. If we, as conservatives, put Romney over the top to election then he owes us. Picking Ryan as his VP is a good sign that he knows he is somewhat beholden to the Tea Party and we will hold him to account if he strays from fiscal responsibility. Romney's religion is a non-issue for me, at least he has one and stick's by it, unlike the current denizen of the Oval Office. Refusing to vote in November is not standing on principle, it is childish sulking whether you are willing to admit or not. The bottom line is Romney is someone who will defend America and can be pushed to do the right thing budget wise. We know Obama is neither. In light of that I don’t see how anyone can in good conscience vote for Obama licitly or implicitly by refusing to vote at all. By refusing to vote you become part of what is wrong with politics by being party to the problem instead of voting for solutions however flawed.
